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MOOSEHEAD LAKE. MOOSE'HEAD LAKE. An irregular body of water on the liiirder of Somerset and I'iscata- i|ui= counties, Maine (Map: Maine, D 4). It is tlie largest lal-ce in the State, beinj; about 35 miles long and from one to ten miles wide. It receives the Moose River and several other streams, and is the souree of the Kennebec, while toward the north it also drains into the Penobscot. It lies in the midst of a wild and sparsely inhabited forest region where game is still found. A rail- road now runs along the southern shore through fireenville, and steamboats have for many years plied on the lake.

MOOSEWOOD. See Leatherwood.

MOOT ( AS. m.o(, meeting, assembly: connected with iiK'tdH. to meet). The name given in Anglo- Sa.on Kngland to the meetings of the tribe or district and the like. In these moots was trans- acted a great part of the public business, whether executive, legislative, or judicial. The best known of these assemblies is the one which was attended by the great men of the whole nation or tribe, and was known as the moot of the wise men or Witen- agemotlq.v. ). But smaller districts, like the shire, the hundred, and the township, also held moots, which were usually attended by all the freemen of tlie district. The place of meeting of such an assembly was also frequently termed moot. Con- sult Stubbs. Constitulioiial History of England, vol. i. (t;th ed., O.xford, I8'J7).

MOP'STJS (Lat., from Gk. MAv^os). (I) In Greek mythologj', a seer, one of the Thessalian Lapitha', the son of Apollo by Himantis, or of Ampyx by Chloris. He took part in the combat between the Centaurs and Lapithip. in the Caly- donian Hunt, and in the Argonautic Expedition, during which he was killed l)y a snake in Libya. After his death he was honcued as an oracular hero. (2) A renowned seer, the son of Apollo and Manto, daughter of Tiresias. At Colophon he surpassed Calchas in pniphecy. With .m- philochus he was credited with having built the Cilician city Mallos, where both the founders perished in a dispute over its possession. MOQTJEGTJA, mo ka'gwa. A coast department of I'cru, bounded by the Department of Arequipa on the north. Puno on the east, Chile on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west (Map: Peru, C 7). Its area is 0.549 square miles. It is traversed by the main range of the Andes, whose slopes are the most fertile and populous portions of the department. The coa.st region is a rainless desert. 'iiiev;irds cover large parts of the cultivated areas, and wine and lirnndy are the chief products. The population was otiicially estimated at 42.(!94 in 1800. The capital. Mri- quegua, is situated in the centre of the province, about 68 miles by rail from the port of Ilo. Founded in l('i2fi, it suffered frequently from de- structive earthqiakes, and was entirely destroyed by the last upheaval, which occurred in .ugust, I'sns, Its population is estimated at :")000. MOQUI, mn'ke. A tribe of Xorth American Indians. See Hoi'l.

MOR, mor (or MORO) VAN DASHORST, imVro van diis'hrtrst, Antom.s ( ir)l2?c.lo78) . A Dutch portrait painter, born at Utrecht. He secured the patronage of Kni))eror Charles V., and was much employed by the Duke of Alv.i. at Bni.ssels. About l.lCiS he .settled in Antwerp, where he died between 1576 and 1578. His por- traits, which in style much resemble those of Holbein, entitle him to be ranked with the masters of his time. The Madrid iluseum con- tains thirteen specimens from his brush, but the six in the Vienna Museum are the most instruc- tive. Among these are: "Cardinal Granvella" (1549) ; "Young Man with a Scar" (1504) : and a "Young Married Couple" (1575). In the Museum of The Hague there is also a male por- trait (1504), and in the Louvre the "Dwarf of Charles V." Portraits of himself are in the Museum at Uasel and in the Uffizi at Florence. MORA, iiio'ra (Guiana name). Certain species of trees of the genus Dimorphandra of the natural order Leguminosie. The timber, which is exported as mora wood, is darker tlian mahogany. It is valued for shipbuilding, and is said to be equal to oak of the finest quality. MORA'CE.a; (Neo-Lat. nom. pi., from Lat. morus. mulberry), or Mi'I.herry F.mily. A nat- ural order of dicotyledonous plants, comprising about 800 species of trees, shrubs, or herbs of temperate and tropical climates, and designated by lientham and Hooker as a suborder of Urti- cacesB. The iloraces have rough leaves, a milky juice, very small flowers followed by fruits in- closed in a succulent receptacle, or fleshy calyx, or if in a head or spike combined into one. Some are valuable for their fruit, some for the caout- chouc obtained from their milky juice, others for their fibre and timber. Among the species are figs, mulberries, Osage orange, fustic, and contrayerva, hops, hemp, etc. According to Kngler the chief genera in the restricted order are: Morus (the mulberry), ilaclura (Osage orange ), Proussonetia ( pajier mulberry ) , Arto- carpus (breadfruit), Castilloa (rubber or caout- chouc), Antiaris (upas tree), Ficus (fig), Hu- mulus (hop), and Cannabis (hemp).

MORADABAD, mo-rud'a b-id'. A city of Briti>h India. See ML'B.u.ii.D.

MORAES BARROS, mo-rish' bar'rds, Pru- DENTi, ( 1.S4 1-1902 ). A Brazilian politician, born at Itii, in Si"io Paulo. He studied law. and in 1885 entered the National Legislature, and there became a leader of the Republican Party. After the dejmsition of Dom Pedro, Moracs Barros was appointed Governor of Sao Paulo (1889). He became president of the Constitutional .Assem- bly; was defeated for President of the new Re- public by Fonseca (1891). but was elected to that post in 1894 by a majority which proved a (■nisliing <lefeat for the military party, lie was fon-ed to retire in November, 1890; was reelect- ed four months afterwards, but was defeated in 1898 by Campos Salles. MORAINE (Fr., from It. mora, heap of stones, from Bavarian Ger. mtir. dC-hris). . accumulation of earth and stone carried forward by a glacier. When such materials arc heaped up along the margins of a glacier, the lines of debris are called lateral morninm. The conflu- ence of glaciers causes a coalescing of the inner lateral moraines, which are then carried forward as mrilini moraines. Debris frozen in the lower ])art of the glacier and pushed along its bed is called the fjroiind moraine. Finally the materials transported in the various ways accumulate at the lower end of the glacier in irregular mounds constituting terminal moraines. See Glacier.